Symptoms of my hidden Conservatism?
by Frederick
Gory Prospects
Mark R. Levin
The Corner
So, the Democrat party’s answer to the split between Hillary Clinton and Barak Obama might be to nominate Al Gore, who hasn’t run in any primary or caucus. If that happens then none of the votes cast by any of the Democrat voters counted. They will all have disenfranchised. And how does a Gore nomination address all the talk by the Obama supporters that the convention must deliver the nomination to Obama as he has received (or will have received) the most popular votes and secured the most delegates? Finally, what about all the excitement over the possibility of the first woman or first black president? That goes down the tubes with the nomination of Gore. It seems to me that a Gore nomination creates serious problems for the Democrat[ic] Party. So, I would encourage the Democrats to do it.
That can’t be the only explanation of finding myself agreeing with folks like David Brooks, Peggy Noonan, and now, Mark Levin? Can it? I’ve been less than thrilled with Senator Clinton’s use of the very same vast rightwing conspiracy machine she’d decried in the past to fuel the Rev. Jeremiah Wright circus. But that doesn’t give me leeway to cock an eyebrow at the general mess of things the DNC has made of the Primary process in their traditional attempt to snatch defeat from the jaws of victory, does it? Just because the doyens of the opposition note the facts? A True Believer® doesn’t allow themselves to fall under the spell of such foreign influence.
Comments
Much as I’m loathe to say anything nice about the DNC, they didn’t screw up this primary process, Obama did.
Everything was set up so that HRC clinched on Super Tuesday. Obamagasm, that long dead sensation, messed that up. Or HRC fucked up. Something.
But the plan was for Obama to do well enough to be HRC’s vpotus on the way to her coronation.
I hold the DNC responsible for not thinking things through from the beginning and offering the leadership they had the power to do. They had the two (or three, if you count John Edwards) candidates with the greatest star power running at the same time and they did NOTHING to discuss, mediate, balance, negotiate any possible gridlock, such as is happening now, at the outset, like they should have.
And to expect Al Gore to ride in on a white horse and rescue the Convention and the Party, when, IMHO, he didn’t fight hard or dirty enough to save his own elected presidency, that’s just wishful thinking and still refusing to see the nomination problems as they are.
But Droudy, I read on a Liberal blog somewhere that it was Ralph Nader’s fault?! /snark.
I think the longer this process drags on, the better chance we have of seeing a President McCain this year. Gore didn’t fuck this up, Obama didn’t fuck this up, the only one fucking this up is the one who keeps on fucking things up.
Frederick,
Even though I did comment on the thread at the Liberal blog you mentioned, I always thought Nader as more of a hemorroid to the 2000 elections, and an embarrassment to himself each time he runs, though I do believe we need more than one party.
I think the longer this process drags on, the better chance we have of seeing a President McCain this year.
I’m still convinced this will happen. Bombs away!